XXII. 1CETHERN'S STRAIT-FIGHT1
Joseph Dunn translation
XXII. 1CETHERN'S STRAIT-FIGHT1
"These the leeches of the Táin, Who by Cethern—bane—did fall. No light thing, in floods of tribes, That their names are known to me: "Littè, Luaidren, known o'er sea, Lot and Luaimnech, 'White-hand' Lonn, Latheirnè skilful, also Lonn, Laisrè, Slanoll 'That cures all.' "Dubthach, Fintan's blameless son, Fintan, master Firfial, too, Mainè, Boethan 'Gives not pain,' Eke his pupil, Boethan's son.
"These the leeches, five and ten, Struck to death by Cethern, true; I recall them in my day; They are in the leeches' roll!"4
W. 4284. Yea, even the fifteenth leech, it was but the tip of a blow that reached him. Yet he fell lifeless of the great stun between the bodies of the other physicians and lay there for a long space and time. Ithall, leech of Ailill and Medb, was his name.